Description

MELBOURN HIGH STREET
TL 3844
(South east side)
24/178
No. 81 (The Manor
22.11.67 House) (formerly listed
as part of No. iii)
GV II*

House. c.1710-20, with mid C18 parlour wing at the rear. Red and burnt
brick on plinth, except for the rear wall which is timber framed. Parapetted
roof, tiled with end stacks and moulded brick eaves cornice. Original early
C18 house of single range plan with service and offices to the north end and
principal rooms flanking a narrower hall and stairbay. Cellar, two principal
storeys and attic. Three hipped dormers. Symmetrical five window range
framed by pilasters with red brick quoins and moulded brick capitals and
bases. Original ovolo moulded glazing bars to twelve pane hung sashes with
arched top panes in open boxing and segmental arches. Four steps up to
central doorway with door of eight raised and fielded panels and later flat
hood on scroll brackets. Lead rainwater downpipe, C18-C19, to front wall and
another probably mid C18 with initials W.H. to right hand gable end. Parlour
wing added mid C18. Red brick, tiled. Two storeys and attic. Sham framing
to part of rear wall. Inside: Paved hall with fine open-string staircase of
four flights and two landings. Column on-vase balusters with swept and
moulded rail, square newels, fluted, with curtail. The mid C18 parlour at
the rear is lined with raised and fielded panelling in two heights and the
room adjoining at the front has similar panelling. The overmantel has a
modillion cornice, but the fireplace is c.1840 and of white marble. It has
been suggested that the house was built for Richard Hitch on his marriage to
Mary Hawkes in 1704 or that it was the bailiffs house built by the Hitch
family following their purchase of the Argentines and Trayles Manors.

Nina Campkin : Melbourn Village History (mss. in Cambridgeshire Collection)
V.C.H. Cambs. Vol. VIII
R.C.H.M.: Record Card (1949)

Listing NGR: TL3818844645

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17550790

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